FY25 Q1 Teaching Lab Annual Goals Progress Monitoring

Painting the picture of where we are, and where we are going…

Goal 1: Scale

Increase the Number of Educators Served
- 16,000 educators reached, serving >1M students
- 100% of partnerships maintain an accurate logistics board, project plan, and content development boards
Increase Teacher and Student Learning
- 90% participants Strongly agree/agree: I have applied or will apply what I have learned to my practice.
- 90% participants Strongly agree/agree: I am satisfied with the overall quality of this PL.
- 100% of partnerships collect data on student achievement (formative assessments, curriculum assessments, interim assessments, and/or summative assessments), and measure growth as rigorously as possible.
Scale Front Line Delivery (facilitator/coach) Quality
- 90% of participants say about facilitators/coaches: They effectively built a safe learning environment.
- 90% of participants say about facilitators/coaches: They made adjustments based on participants’ needs.
- 90% of participants say about facilitators/coaches: They demonstrated deep knowledge of the content they facilitated/coached.
- 90% of participants say about facilitators/coaches: They facilitated and/or coached clearly.

Goal 2: Coherent Instruction System

Be Responsive to Educators
- Teacher NPS >40
- Other educator NPS >50
- Renewal rate: >90% of partnerships extend into the following year

Goal 3: Learning & Innovation

Innovate to Improve the Model
- Innovation Studio projects conduct at least one efficacy study to measure the learning impact of the project.
- 2+ Teaching Lab Innovation Studio tools/resources are used in TL partnerships
Be a Learning Organization
- Teacher Advisory Board members are engaged to provide feedback on new products, services, or content 24 times per year
- 90% of new PL content development is reviewed and approved by a subject-matter or curriculum expert in the relevant area
- 90% of revisions to existing products/services and design/innovation of new products/services are done with user feedback (Includes getting feedback from a partner and/or formal mechanisms like TAB)
Research becomes the way we do work
- >3 research projects that rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of Teaching Lab’s model, support the ongoing development and innovation of our model, and/or contribute to the larg…

Goal 4: Influencing the Field

Influence the Field
- Program / Marketing & Comms collaborate to engage in at least three (3) “large resource drops” w/ full communications plan focused on priority areas
- Minimum of thought leadership presence at three (3) national or regional education conferences, obtain positive press coverage for three (3) thought leadership initiatives, and support the creation of biannual (two) high-quality whitepapers or research reports
- 25% increase in overall engagement rate
- 20% increase in overall social media followers
- Internal newsletter maintains an 80% open rate throughout the year

Goal 5: Attract, Engage & Delight Audiences

Drive New Qualified Leads
- Aspirational Intelligence newsletter generates at least five new philanthropic opportunities
- Engage in at least 24 meetings per year with funders that center new funding opportunities
- 40% RFPs applied for convert into partnerships

Goal 6: Culture Committed to Racial Justice

Build a sustainable and antiracist organization
- Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS) for all employees >40
- There is no difference between team members’ responses to the question: “How likely are you to recommend working at Teaching Lab to a friend or colleague?” And “How likely are you to recommend work…
- >80% of employees say “Our Racial Equity Coalition, Affinity Support Groups, and Heart Committee advance our organizational racial justice strategy.”
- >80% of employees say a commitment to pursuing anti-racism is embedded into my work at Teaching Lab

Goal 7: Organizational Sustainability

Maintain Financial Sustainability
- TLVI is fully funded and sustainable by funds raised and/or board approved funding from Innovation Reserve.
- Earned Revenue/philanthropy ratio does not fall below 40%/60%
- 100% of projects (internal and external) have a project budget, and each project operates within budget constraints
- Profit margin remains at least 5%
- Operational overhead cost (administrative and fundraising) is <25%
- Annual net income maintains a forward-looking 3 month cash reserve. Net asset reserves maintain a forward-looking 6 months+ net asset reserve.
- 80% of invoices are collected within 60 days

Generate Revenue
- Total Programmatic Delivery Revenue: $22M
- Total Revenue: $25M
- Philanthropy for internal operations: $3M
- Earned revenue: $13.5M
- Philanthropy for programmatic delivery: $8.5M (including $5M for Innovation)

Operate Efficiently and Equitably
- Through the centralized staffing process, 75% of facilitators are offered the opportunity to facilitate at least one project
- 80% of employees report that organizational platforms support knowledge management (Paylocity, Sage Financial Dashboard, Datahub Dashboards, Staff Site, Canvas Commons, monday.com)
- 80% of employees agree that the key organizational processes are clear: Talent acquisition, Employee onboarding, Centralized staffing, Project budgeting, Project data collection, Requesting 1099 contractors, General Tech issues, Expense Reports, Logistics Boards, Coaching Logs, Partnership Proposals & Contracting, Facilitation Competency & Development
- 80% of open positions (employee and contractor) are filled within 10 weeks from the time of posting
- 80% of employees report that they understand how to incorporate key data in their work: Project Budgets, Participant Feedback, Teacher Outcomes, Student Outcomes, Project Logs, Coach/Facilitation Competencies Data
- 80% of employees report that organizational platforms support efficiency (monday.com, Expensify)
- 80% of employees report that organizational platforms support collaboration (monday.com, Slack)
- 80% of employees report that they aware of key data: Project Budgets, Participant Feedback, Teacher Outcomes, Student Outcomes, Project Logs, Coach/Facilitation Competencies Data

Collaboration
- 80% of employees report that organizational platforms support collaboration (monday.com, Slack)

Knowledge Management
- 80% of employees report that organizational platforms support knowledge management (Paylocity, Sage Financial Dashboard, Datahub Dashboards, Staff Site, Canvas Commons, monday.com)

Efficiency
- 80% of employees report that organizational platforms support efficiency (monday.com, Expensify)

Awareness of Key Data
- 80% of employees report that they aware of key data: Project Budgets, Participant Feedback, Teacher Outcomes, Student Outcomes, Project Logs, Coach/Facilitation Competencies Data)

Incorporation of Key Data
- 80% of employees report that they understand how to incorporate key data in their work: Project Budgets, Participant Feedback, Teacher Outcomes, Student Outcomes, Project Logs, Coach/Facilitation Competencies Data, etc.)

Team members receive meaningful feedback for growth throughout the year
- 100% of employees complete each relevant phase of the PDS process in alignment with deadlines
- 80% of employees who engage in the PDS process, at each phase, agree that the process is clear and valuable
- 80% of employees who engage in the PDS process agree that the Home Manager provided coaching or timely feedback, aligned to Teaching Lab’s values and competencies, regarding their performance
- 100% of team members will engage in professional development throughout the year via the use of resources, including but not limited to, the annual Total Well-being funds, Boon Health coaching and/…

That’s all for Q1…

More next quarter…

The left hand side of this scrolling visual describes each organizational goal where data has been reported on so far, color coded by this key to illustrate how we are doing so far this year.

Scroll down to see how we are doing on each goal, or navigate directly to a goal with the table of contents on the left.

This is a scrolling visualization of Teaching Lab’s organizational goals by Duncan Gates, appearing on The Data Hub on November 18, 2024. See the Progress monitoring monday board here.